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In 2012, Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. Since then, more states have followed. To date, 33 states have legalized the recreational or medicinal use of marijuana. Canada legalized recreational use nation-wide in October 2018. As these legal markets emerge, investments are pouring in (by one estimate, consumer spending on…

An fascinating Bloomberg article got here throughout my desk a pair weeks in the past known as, “CBD Craze is Creating a Trademark Problem for a Coffee Brand in Maine.” The article raises a pair of essential points associated to the trademark requirement of distinctiveness, in addition to the lengths to which one can stretch…

A privately-owned cannabis store in Newfoundland is closing, and the manager says supply issues are largely to blame. Puff Puff Pass Headshop in Clarenville, N.L., is the province’s first private weed store casualty since recreational marijuana was legalized in October. It is one of just six private, regulated cannabis retailers in Newfoundland and Labrador, and…

After more than three months of legalized cannabis, Alberta counts 36 per cent of the country’s legal pot shops. Of the 183 licensed marijuana outlets open in all the provinces and territories as of earlier this week, 65 are located in Alberta, which comprises only about 12 per cent of the country’s population. A significant…

The African nation of Zimbabwe issued the country’s first license to a medical marijuana company earlier this month, according to a report from Marijuana Business Daily. In a letter obtained by the publication that is dated March 7, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care informed Precision Cannabis Therapeutics Zimbabwe that the company’s application to produce medical…